A €51,562 spend by a local authority on revamping its main meeting room including an outlay of €31,093 on a ‘bespoke’ table and 22 chairs has been described as an ‘extravagance and unnecessary’.

The proposed changes to Cork City’s boundary have already hit serious problems with Cork County Council stating it is currently not in a position to accept it after raising a number of concerns.

The people of Kildare and Meath badly need the benefits of green policies, Green Party leader Trevor Sargent said today as he unveiled candidates for the upcoming by-elections.

FIANNA FÁIL’S investigation into the Lorcan Allen affair failed to discover where the councillor got the 2,000 Oireachtas prepaid envelopes he used to send out his bogus letters.